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Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) by amelius on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:03PM (#38758271)
What is the ancestor language, and how do you pronounce þū?
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Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) by pvg on Sunday December 24, 2023 @09:34PM (#38759128)
proto-West Germanic by current thinking (at least, by Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages#Validi...

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